Tanning Do's and Don'ts

If you’ve wanted to always use a tanning bed but you’ve become afraid to use it because of certain stereotypes. This article may help you out in removing your age old beliefs. It will help you no longer compare tanning beds to the oven that cooked Hansel and Gretel. Hopefully after reading this article you won’t be more naïve about this technology and try using it out. This article will help explain how tanning beds really works on your skin.

In simple words, this is how tanning works indoors and outdoors. The ultraviolet rays start the whole process and when it reaches the skin, the melanin will do the rest. That’s why Dracula is pale, because he hates the sunlight because he doesn’t want to become darker and have burned skin. But we are not Dracula; we are people who want to have a healthier and better skin complexion. So let’s take a better and more detailed look so we will not be afraid of sunlight.

The epidermis is the skin’s outermost part and this is where tanning occurs. The epidermis has got five percent special cells called melanocytes. When exposed to sunlight, melanocytes produce the melanin. Melanin is the substance that is responsible for the tan. The pinkish melanin will then travel upward to the epidermis, and will then be absorbed of by the other skin cells. If it then becomes exposed to ultra violet A light, it will now darken. When your skin darkens, it is only the process of protecting itself from too much ultraviolet rays.

If you wonder why people are of different color it’s because of the hereditary factors that dictates how many melanin your melanocytes produce. But everyone has the same number of melanocytes which numbers up to five million. Therefore Caucasian people are whit because they have fewer melanin.

To avoid the bad thing that you are expecting try not to overdo tanning. Only do it gradually, as overdoing it can cause you to have sunburns and erytherma. Erytherma occurs when the tiny blood vessels in your skin are disrupted because of too much sunlight.

Tan’s are not permanent as well. If you think that by getting it only one time, the tan will stay forever. Tans do fade because cells in the living epidermis are always constantly reproducing and they will push or move up towards the dead epidermis. This process will take about a month before the tan is completely gone. Tanning process must also continue with the new cells.

That’s what happens to your skin when you tan yourself. You do not necessarily cook yourself to death, as tanning produces the opposite result of cooking in some ways. When cooking, you are actually trying to soften the meat up, while when tanning you try to strengthen your bones in some way too.

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